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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

We the people of the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity ...

Accession number
PML 16504.1
Published
[Philadelphia : s.n., Aug. 6, 1787]
Credit line
Purchase; Pierpont Morgan; 1907.
Notes
"The first draft of the report of the Committee of Five of the Federal Convention. Printed, for use of members, in an edition of sixty copies, on one side of seven leaves, only."--Evans.
Caption title.
Imprint supplied by Evans.
Sheets measure 37 x 24 cm.
With engraved portraits of Baldwin, Few, and Walton (2).
Description
7 leaves.
Provenance
Abraham Baldwin's copy with his ms. notes throughout. Armorial bookplate: Charles C. Jones, Jr.
Binding
Disbound. In flat case with related PML and MA items measuring 54 cm. Previously bound in 3/4 red morocco lettered: Draft Constitution.
Classification
Department